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Jasdaq rejects NOVA report on improvement measures
The Jasdaq Securities Exchange has rejected a report on improvement measures submitted by trouble-hit English language company NOVA as insufficient, and instructed it to submit a new report by Oct. 19, it has been learned. The securities exchange said NOVA had failed to sort out problem issues and points requiring improvement in a report submitted…
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Nova collapse feared
Hundreds of Australian teachers of English in Japan should “start making contingency plans”, the Government has warned, as erratic behaviour by language school colossus NOVA this week fuelled more predictions of an impending collapse. Dozens of foreign staff at NOVA, which employs more than 1000 Australians, have reportedly been given eviction notices because the corporate…
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Students deceived in overseas jobs
Despite possible closure of 300 schools, company that recruits Canadian teachers from universities still hiring by David Jobson Nova Group of Japan, the largest private language school in Japan, has encountered serious financial and legal problems. But that hasn?t stopped the company from hiring Canadian students to teach in Japan. Nova ? the largest employer…
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After failing honesty test, NOVA tightens the screws on teachers
NOVA, Japan’s biggest chain of English language conversation schools is feeling the pinch, and it’s struggling to pay its biggest asset — foreign teachers, Weekly Playboy (10/15) says. NOVA was supposed to pay its instructors on Sept. 15, but hundreds still hadn’t received their wages 10 days later and some may have still yet to…
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Aussie teachers not paid, left homeless in Japan
THOUSANDS of Australians in Japan face the prospect of no jobs and no accommodation amid growing fears the country’s largest English conversation school is on the brink of collapse. Nova, the bulk of whose 5000-strong foreign workforce is Australian, might go bankrupt as early as November, Tokyo-based business consultant Ken Worsley said. The company’s Australian…
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Nova teachers demand unpaid wages
The labor union of scandal-tainted language school operator Nova Corp. filed a request with labor standards supervision authorities Thursday to order the company to pay wages in arrears to its foreign teachers, union officials said. The industry giant, already embroiled in a scandal related to its fraudulent advertising practices, has failed to pay September wages,…
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Aussie teachers ask Nova to show them the money
A COMPANY that employs thousands of Australians in Japan is still recruiting English teachers in Sydney despite failing to pay its staff for more than 12 days. Japanese language company Nova, which claims to have up to 5000 Australian employees, has yet to explain the delay in payments. Australian teachers say they fear eviction from…
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Ailing NOVA under pressure to pay teachers’ delayed wages
A labor union will ask a governmental labor inspection office to demand troubled English school NOVA pay its teachers their delayed wages. NOVA started to delay paying wages to its Japanese staff members in late July, and has been late paying its foreign teachers since Sept. 14, General Union officials said. [Tokyo Nambu’s sister union]…
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Ex-Nova students sue for refunds
Four people who canceled their English-language lesson contracts with Nova Corp. filed a lawsuit against the language school with the Kyoto District Court on Wednesday, demanding refunds totaling about 2.45 million yen in tuition for unattended classes. Ten other former Nova students also filed a lawsuit with the court on the same day, demanding that…